Usability, security and trust in password managers: A quest for user-centric properties and features

S Chaudhary, T Schafeitel-Tähtinen, M Helenius… - Computer Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
A password manager stores and handles users' passwords from different services. This
relieves the users from constantly remembering and recalling many different login …

Better managed than memorized? Studying the Impact of Managers on Password Strength and Reuse

SG Lyastani, M Schilling, S Fahl, M Backes… - 27th USENIX Security …, 2018 - usenix.org
Despite their well-known security problems, passwords are still the incumbent authentication
method for virtually all online services. To remedy the situation, users are very often referred …

" I don't see why I would ever want to use it" Analyzing the Usability of Popular Smartphone Password Managers

S Seiler-Hwang, P Arias-Cabarcos, A Marín… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Passwords are an often unavoidable authentication mechanism, despite the availability of
additional alternative means. In the case of smartphones, usability problems are aggravated …

Encouraging password manager adoption by meeting adopter self-determination needs

N Alkaldi, K Renaud, L Mackenzie - 2019 - eprints.gla.ac.uk
Password managers are a potential solution to the password conundrum, but adoption is
paltry. We investigated the impact of a recommender application that harnessed the tenets of …

Analysis on the security and use of password managers

C Luevanos, J Elizarraras, K Hirschi… - 2017 18th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cybersecurity has become one of the largest growing fields in computer science and the
technology industry. Faulty security has cost the global economy immense losses …

Killing the password and preserving privacy with device-centric and attribute-based authentication

K Papadamou, S Zannettou, B Chifor… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current authentication methods on the Web have serious weaknesses. First, services
heavily rely on the traditional password paradigm, which diminishes the end-users' security …

[PDF][PDF] Security Analysis of Master-Password-Protected Password Management Protocols

Y Duan, D Wang, Y Fu - 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Password managers (PMs) are useful tools that help users manage their login credentials,
alleviating the burden of memorizing an ever-increasing number of passwords …

Toward a secure and usable cloud-based password manager for web browsers

R Zhao, C Yue - Computers & Security, 2014 - Elsevier
Web users are confronted with the daunting challenges of creating, remembering, and using
more and more strong passwords than ever before in order to protect their valuable assets …

Keep your memory dump shut: Unveiling data leaks in password managers

E Chatzoglou, V Kampourakis, Z Tsiatsikas… - … Conference on ICT …, 2024 - Springer
Password management has long been a persistently challenging task. This led to the
introduction of password management software, which has been around for at least 25 years …

Password Managers and Vault Application Security and Forensics: Research Challenges and Future Opportunities

A Nash, KKR Choo - International Conference on Digital Forensics and …, 2023 - Springer
Password manager and vault applications can be used by users to select strong passwords
as well as storing user credentials locally or in the cloud. Such apps have been studied by …